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Does anybody use commision Junction.com as affiliate program? Either it's me or something is wrong as I'm not selling/earning anything with it. My Cj account balance has been on 0.04 dollars for two Months!

The other affiliate program I am using Dimeclicks.com give 0.17 cents per click and I have already earned over a dollar after two days! And Sitegadgets.com are also giving hundreds of times more than Cj.com!?

I've had similar things happen. Burst on their payment page said they owed me $16.7million (2^24 if you want the FULL number) but I calculated and they owed me closer to like $50 and they haven't paid. Oh well I don't really care anymore.

Amazon.com affiliate program which I signed up with has my account balance at around $5 and it's been that way for almost two years.

It's not that the affiliate programs have bugs, it just that that sort of money-making structure is hard to profit from unless you have high traffic. I have been with Amazon.com for 3 years, and didn't start making a considerable amount of $ until my traffic was very high (thousands of unique visitors per day). It also depends what kind of links you have... with amazon, for instance, relevant links next to content & hand-picked selections work best.

Can't go wrong with Advertising.com...just got a $20 check from them that I'd forgotten I even earned...so you don't have to nag them to get what you're owed...and they're a large enough of an organization that they won't try to rip you off...

I've heard positive things too, but I've had a very negative experience with Advertising.com. After a couple months of nice checks from them they sent me an email reading "we've elected to drop your account due to a report from our early warning system software" with no real explanation, then my account manager there stopped responding to my mail. I've moved to CJ.com and made about $20 in my first month (about the same I was getting from advertising.com).

A lot of what you earn will depend on a number of factors which you have not mentioned:

* How many visitors do you have?
* How many of them are unique?

Your site seems pretty well laid out, but what content have you got? Without being too brutal, you've got a list of links, some free graphics, and some sections that are incomplete or not available.

If you could build on the content you have - by which I mean text articles, or a compelling feature/service which will draw people back your site, you are more likely to get repeat visitors who you can develop a relationship with. Once you have that, you will find you will sell more.

I'm speaking from experience here - I began making websites with a small psychology site, just a handful of pages and a lot of links. Now I have a search engine of those other sites, free email, parser pages for Amazon and eBay within my pages, a bookstore, as well as a load more content. It was only when all this started to come together that I started to make money, because my visitors came back.

I hope this helps. It's a nice site design you've got - add some content and I think your sales will go up.

I signed up with commission junction and a bunch of different affiliate programs through them. I too think that the $$$ figures and click-through numbers that they're reporting are very low. It's nice to know it's not just me. I was just planning to monitor how certain links did on my home page and then remove those that aren't bringing in the $$$. Does anyone have a better way... a tool that does the analysis for you. It gets complicated when you have so many different affiliate programs and places to look for the information.